Research in psychology has shown that when people are told not to think about a pink elephant they cannot avoid doing just that. Similar results are found for language production in that people leak information about hidden figures when instructed to ignore those figures. It is argued that the salience of information plays a crucial role in these effects. The present study investigates how different factors of salience affect speakers ’ lexical and prosodic behaviour. Results indicate that those factors affect lexical use and prosody in different ways and, crucially, that adjectives signalling leaked information are prosodically more prominent, as measured by both by acoustic analysis and prominence ratings. is more likely to use an adjective referring to that contrast. The current paper builds on previous work to tackle a number of issues that remain unexplored. In particular, we explore questions related to the salience of the information that is described, with respect to both the lexical and prosodic characteristics of adjectives.

European Journal of Personality 17: 285-298, 2003) was designed to measure thought intrusion, thought suppression and successful thought suppression. Given the importance to distinguish between these three aspects of thought control, the aim of this study was to scrutinize the dimensionality of the TSI. In a sample of 333 Dutch senior citizins, we examined (1) the dimensionality of the TSI using various procedures such as PAF, Mokken scale analysis (MSA) and CFA, and (2) the scale properties of the TSI. PAF favored a two factor solution, however, MSA and CFA suggested that three dimensions most adequately capture the structure of the TSI. Although all scales obtained at least medium scalability coefficients, several items were identified that are psychometrically unsound and may benefit from rewording or replacement. The findings suggest that the TSI is a threedimensional questionnaire as originally proposed by Rassin